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Uniquely located in the heart of the magnificent Rhodopi Mountain, the Rhodopi Pearl Resort' offers comfortable and relaxing environment just minutes away from the colorful downtown of the charming Pamoprovo resort. Majestic mountain views and pine tree forest contribute to enrich this warm atmosphere, where the commitment of service and modern comfort are claiming to create one of the most distinguished addresses in the area.

Travel Blogs from Pamporovo

It's still raining this morning. We are heading for Xanthi which is famous for it's old quarter, once wealthy from tobacco it boasts fine mansions and historic houses set in into the hill side on winding cobbled streets. The rain is light until all of a sudden there is a torrential downpour, it's so heavy we are only able to manage a crawling speed, so we can see the road. At Xanthi we parked and had lunch, we could hear the storm in the ...

... Ottomans wouldn't allow public buildings (oddly?) so the houses often were overly large and had very large reception rooms which could be used for meetings. Interestingly many were also inter-connected so the women could move between the houses unseen.

Now back in the hotel the skies have cleared a bit and the mountains we will drive through to Greece tomorrow can be seen in the distance. ...

We are getting later and slower in the mornings. Sitting drinking our second cup of coffee in the lovely garden of the Arbanasi Han Hotel (which I can highly recommend) watching a very dark red, almost black, squirrel playing in the trees it was hard to set off for Plovdiv.

A chance conversation alerted us to the newly discovered Thracian tombs of 4C BC in the valley of Kazanlak which were only explored in ...

While we still had some skills from our Christmas lessons we wanted to return to the slopes and go it alone. Conditions weren't very god for our first 3 days but then it cooled down enough to make snow that would settle and then it finally started snowing. J ...

... at all. Christmas day was dinner at Gloria Mar (also visited in 2012) along with 2 new friends from our boarding class Jimmy and Cally that are staying in the same town. The same people came back to Dak's Irish bar to work and it was great to see them again..along with the band and tasty cocktails. Sadly not enough snow to do a skidoo trip this year, but we feel like we jumped ahead in our skill levels and have some lovely bruises to prove the effort put in this year ...